converting Month name to a number

I would like to convert a column that holds the name of a month
(January, February, etc) into a number (1, 2). Is there an easy way to
do this, you can't do enough if statemnts to do that. any suggestions?

How about:

=MONTH(DATEVALUE(A1&" 1"))

Where A1 holds that month string.

runsrealfast wrote:
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> I would like to convert a column that holds the name of a month
> (January, February, etc) into a number (1, 2). Is there an easy way to
> do this, you can't do enough if statemnts to do that. any suggestions?

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Dave Peterson

=MONTH(DATEVALUE("01-"&A21))

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"runsrealfast" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I would like to convert a column that holds the name of a month
> (January, February, etc) into a number (1, 2). Is there an easy way to
> do this, you can't do enough if statemnts to do that. any suggestions?
>

If colomn A has month then try:

=MONTH(DATEVALUE("01/" & A1 & "/2006")) and copy down

HTH

"runsrealfast" wrote:

> I would like to convert a column that holds the name of a month
> (January, February, etc) into a number (1, 2). Is there an easy way to
> do this, you can't do enough if statemnts to do that. any suggestions?
>
>